From: Roman Riabenko <roman@riabenko.com>
To: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@ist.tugraz.at>,
54305@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54305: disk utility fail format fat
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 18:56:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9c3ba620a13d73c46027747ab516c4153e50c01c.camel@riabenko.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7c2b3219b2f161a6dc61f582b778e1a076057322.camel@ist.tugraz.at>
Dear Liliana
I reported it upstream as suggested. Here is the link to track the
upstream issue:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility/-/issues/242
I intend to report here if I get a conclusive response.
Thank you!
Roman
У чт, 2022-03-10 у 09:00 +0100, Liliana Marie Prikler пише:
> Hi Roman,
>
> Am Mittwoch, dem 09.03.2022 um 02:27 +0200 schrieb Roman Riabenko:
> > 2. GNOME Disks utility ignored the dosfstools package which I
> > installed
> > in my user profile. For comparison, this applies to ntfs-3g too. In
> > relation to ntfs-3g with UDisks this seems to be expected behavior,
> > but
> > it seemed to me as a bug at first:
> > https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/Desktop-Services.html#index-udisks_002dservice
> >
> > I do not know what is necessary to make GNOME Disk utility
> > recognize
> > the tools in the user profile and I am not sure it is necessary. It
> > just seemed against the spirit of guix that the user is forced to
> > reconfigure the system.
> GNOME Disks inherits UDisks' limitations, as it uses it under the
> hood.
> With that in mind...
>
> > 1. The FAT option was not grayed out in the formatting dialog. For
> > comparison, the NTFS option was grayed out until I added ntfs-3g to
> > the system profile too. May be GNOME Disks expects mkfs.vfat to be
> > present, so it does not check whether it is present like it does
> > for
> > other file systems.
> >
> > So, it would be great for GNOME Disks to check whether mkfs.vfat is
> > available before proceeding like it does for other filesystems.
> You should probably report this one upstream. A fix would be
> relatively simple to write, see [1] for the relevant line making the
> Windows button insensitive. The procedure
> "gdu_utils_is_ntfs_available" spans only a few lines of code and
> could
> easily be adapted to check for vfat instead.
>
> Cheers
>
> [1]
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility/-/blob/40.2/src/disks/gducreatefilesystempage.c#L209
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-13 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-09 0:27 bug#54305: disk utility fail format fat Roman Riabenko
2022-03-10 8:00 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-03-13 16:56 ` Roman Riabenko [this message]
2022-05-24 7:38 ` Roman Riabenko
2023-08-27 20:04 ` Roman Riabenko via Bug reports for GNU Guix
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=9c3ba620a13d73c46027747ab516c4153e50c01c.camel@riabenko.com \
--to=roman@riabenko.com \
--cc=54305@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=liliana.prikler@ist.tugraz.at \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.